SharePoint Katas » Authentication http://sharepointkatas.com Improving our SharePoint skills one Kata at a time! Wed, 20 Jan 2010 08:18:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 SharePoint Admin Kata 1 – Add FBA http://sharepointkatas.com/2010/01/sharepoint-admin-kata-1-add-fba/ http://sharepointkatas.com/2010/01/sharepoint-admin-kata-1-add-fba/#comments Wed, 06 Jan 2010 12:18:27 +0000 hilton.giesenow http://sharepointkatas.com/?p=22 Yesterday we had a developer Kata, so today I thought I’d kick off with one for the administrators. In this Kata, start with (or create) a site collection running with regular Windows authentication, then we’ll go ahead and add a Forms-Based Authentication zone. This will gives us practice in FBA, Alternate Access Mappings (AAMs) and Zones.

One note – for these administration Katas you’ll be working with a running instance of SharePoint. PLEASE don’t do these exercises on your live installation ;->

Here are the steps:

  1. Set up the Forms Based Authentication infrastructure (database, config changes, etc.)
  2. Extend the web application to a new URL (http://Intranet.MyCompany.Com)
  3. Configure the new web application’s security zone to use the FBA settings
  4. Create a hosts file entry on the machine to point to the new site, and test on the server
  5. Repeat step 4, this time on your workstation

If you haven’t worked with FBA before, here’s a video on How Do I: Add Forms-Based to an existing Windows Authentication Site?

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